The Wheeling Daily Intelligencer

So one Republican vote defeated the anti-Pinkerton bill in the legislature, did it, Mr. Register? Well, where was the large Democratic majority in the legislature while this lone Republican was getting in his work?
JOHN O. PENDLETON and free wool cannot win in the First district. It is not their year.
A Squirming Organ.
The Huntington platform states that the Democrats find their authority for denouncing McKinleyism in the constitution of the late Confederate States of America." We don't know about that, but we do know that there are the best Republican authorities for the Democratic stand against taxation of the many for the benefit of the few, of which authorities Grant, Garfield, Arthur and Blaine are not the least prominent-Register.
The Register cannot name a single Republican authority for the Democratic stand on the tariff question as expressed in the Chicago platform of 1892. No Republican, no matter how conservative or liberal his views, has ever gone to the extreme of declaring that a tariff for protection is unconstitutional. The Republicans referred to by the Register never declared, as does the Democratic party in its platform, that "the government has no constitutional power to impose and collect a dollar for tax except for purposes of revenue only."
There have been men calling themselves Republicans who were free traders, but they cannot now be found in the Republican party. They are in the Democratic party where they belong.
The distinguished friends of protection to American industries named by the Register, Grant, Garfield and Blaine, never gave utterance to any sentiment inconsistent with the principle of protection advocated by the Republican party, though they advocated changes in the law as it existed before the McKinley bill.
The Register cannot dodge the issue its own party has made. If it is for the Democratic party to-day it is for free trade and for the expressed principle that this country cannot pass a tariff law for any purpose except for revenue.
In its national convention the Democratic party overwhelmingly defeated a tariff plank that declared that in passing tariff laws "the difference between the cost of labor here and abroad, must be considered;" that it was "not proposed to injure any domestic industries, but rather to promote their healthy growth," and that "any changes of law must be at every step regardful of the labor and capital thus involved." This plank was voted down and in its stead a resolution was adopted that a tariff law having in view the difference of cost of labor here and abroad, the growth of industries, or the interests of labor and capital, is unconstitutional.
Such is the Democratic position and the Register cannot make it anything else without repudiating its party with regard to the most important issue of the campaign. It is an embarrassing position for a party organ to be in, but it cannot get out of it by evasion and equivocation, or by garbling the utterances of former Republican leaders.
The Republican and Democratic platforms of to-day are under discussion and not what individual members of either party may have said years ago.
Let us "stick to the text."
The Register is reminded that the title, "Young Mr. Pendleton," was not given to him by the Republicans, as it seems to think. The credit belongs to the Atlanta Constitution, the ablest and the leading Democratic paper of the South. It applied the title in an article on Mr. Pendleton's extreme freshness during the brief time he occupied Mr. Atkinson's seat in Congress, and in which it declared that the sooner he was unseated the better it would be for the Democrats.
Gov. Henry A. Wise once said of a prolonged wrangle among the Democrats of a doubtful district, "Scare the Democracy, then make them mad and all h-l can't beat them, and sure enough they won."
And it was this same Henry A. Wise who once thanked God there were no free schools in Virginia, because free schools were a menace to the Democratic party.
Mr. ENOCH CARVER, chosen an elector at-large by the Republican convention, is a representative workingman--a blacksmith. Mr. Carver will lead the anvil chorus on the occasion of the celebration of the great Republican victory in West Virginia next fall.
On June 30 our reciprocity treaty with Cuba had been in force ten months. During that time our exports to Cuba were in value $6,000,000 more than for the ten months of the previous year. Reciprocity is a humbug, is it?
Davis, Hyer, Payne, Miller, Bullock, McWhorter and Miller--it's a strong ticket, made up of men of ability, who are thoroughly representative.
Now let the Republican clubs put on their working clothes. This is a Republican year in West Virginia.
The tickets and the platforms are in the field, now let the ball open.